George Ezra's Shotgun claims first Number 1 under the Official Singles Chart's new rules
George Ezra claims a second week at Number 1 with Shotgun on this week’s Official Singles Chart – and the first under the Official Singles Chart’s new rules, which come into effect this week.
The biggest change to the chart is the inclusion of official video streams for the first time, reporting services will include the newly-launched YouTube Music plus video streams from Spotify, Apple Music and Tidal. Read more about the new chart rules here.
Today sees Shotgun’s strongest performance yet with combined units of 76,000. It was the best-selling track of the week with 18,000 pure sales, while on audio streaming services it racked up 5.8 million plays, and its accompanying video tallied just under 3 million views. Watch George celebrate his first Number 1 single from last week:
Drake’s Michael Jackson collaboration Don’t Matter To Me nabs the title of UK’s most streamed track of the week, and leads three new Drake entries in the Top 5, including Nonstop at 4 and Emotionless (5) . Check out the UK's Official Top 40 biggest singles of 2018 so far.
However it’s Maroon 5’s Girls Like You ft. Cardi B that scores the most streamed video of the week with 2.67m video streams, the track lifs from 13 to 10 to give the band their tenth UK Top 10 single, while Jonas Blue’s Rise ft. Jack & Jack just misses out on this week’s Top 10, up one place to 11.
Martin Talbot, Chief Executive of the Official Charts Company said: “Congratulations to George Ezra, both for holding on to the Number 1 spot but also having the first Official Number 1 of this new era – thanks to 5.8m audio streams, 2.3m video streams and 20,000 sales.”
To mark the inclusion of video streaming data into the Official Singles Chart, this week’s Official Top 5 most streamed videos in the UK are:
| ARTIST | TITLE | ALBUM STREAMS |
| MAROON 5 FT. CARDI B | GIRLS LIKE YOU | 2.7M |
| GEORGE EZRA | SHOTGUN | 2.3M |
| CLEAN BANDIT FT. DEMI LOVATO | SOLO | 1.47M |
| CARDI B/BAD BUNNY/BALVIN | I LIKE IT | 1.44M |
| ANNE-MARIE | 2002 | 1.37M |
Source: Official Charts Company
Further down, Tiesto & Dzeko’s Jackie Chan ft. Preme & Post Malone hops three spots to 17, and ahead of England’s quarter-final, Baddiel, Skinner & The Lightning Seeds’ Three Lions zooms into the Top 40, up 18 places to 24.
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David Blake
You might just as well include worldwide radio plays... chart success no longer reflects record 'sales'!
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Malcolm Calder
The charts lost their last claim to legitimacy this week - an album which only actually sold 14,000 copies claimed the number 1 spot ahead of several other albums which sold more copies! Streaming has killed the charts!
Blocked in The UK
Yeah...3 album tracks in the Top 5. Oh, this is the singles chart! I just watched Sabrina's Boys over 500 million times on Youtube...will it be No1 next week? (Still better than 95 per cent of this weeks chart) What an insult to music lovers...
Jason B
The charts died when the industry decided to include streaming figures as sales to bump up poor pure sales figures. Including views of music videos is the final nail in the coffin.
KS
Kevin Summers
I totally agree, if you used to buy a single - nobody knew how many times it was played, just counted as one sale.
KS
Kevin Summers
I used to love looking at the charts, but no more! Why are album tracks even considered for the chart? It's the 'UK Top 100 SINGLES!! The clue is in the title.
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spot on! So streaming of paid for INCLUDING TRIALS !